In Gilman's case, it's the witch Keziah Mason who references Azathoth while haunting his dreams, telling him: ( EXP: Russell's Guide to Interdimensional Entities)Īzathoth is a significant malign presence in the Necronomicon, as both Albert Wilmarth ( HPL: ' The Whisperer in Darkness') and Walter Gilman ( HPL: ' The Dreams in the Witch House') are horrified at the mere mention of its name, having both read about it in the occult tome.

( EXP: ' The Insects from Shaggai')Īccording to some accounts, it is a huge sentient black hole. Later Shae sees 'something ooze into the corridor-a pale grey shape, expanding and crinkling, which glistened and shook gelatinously as still-moving particles dropped free but it was only a glimpse'. From the half-open shell rose several jointed cylinders, tipped with polypous appendages and in the darkness inside the shell I thought I saw a horrible bestial, mouthless face, with deep-sunk eyes and covered with glistening black hair.' ( EXP: ' The Insects from Shaggai') Outside, It consisted of a bivalvular shell supported on many pairs of flexible legs.

There can be no definite description of Azathoth, because everybody envisions him differently and he is always changing.įor example Ronald Shea enters a temple after visiting the forest near Goatswood and discovers a twenty-foot idol that 'represented the god Azathoth-Azathoth as he had been before his exile.

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